Attorneys

Areas of Practice
Paul Wexler has an extensive litigation background encompassing corporate, securities and general business litigation. Paul has represented a number of attorneys and other professionals in disputes involving the dissolution of professional firms. He has also counseled attorneys and law firms with respect to ethical issues raised by mergers and dissolution of law firms.

Paul likes the intellectual challenge of the law – from understanding the client situation to developing a strategy and then implementing it successfully. A successful solution can make an important difference in the quality of people’s lives.

Legal Career
1976-1982          Associate, Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky Baker Weitzen & Shalov
1973-1976          Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Professional Activities and Associations
Member, Professional Responsibility Committee, the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics and the Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, New York City Bar Association
Member, Federal Courts Committee, New York State Bar Association

A Westlaw Litigation History Report covering dockets and opinions filed between 1990 and 2010 shows 102 docket filings and 67 judicial opinions in a variety of cases primarily involving securities law, business organizations, and commercial law and contracts for individuals and companies in a variety of industries, especially technology, retail, telecommunications and financial services.

Practice Focus
Bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation
General commercial litigation
Securities litigation

Bar Admissions
New York
United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court

United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Education
J. D., cum laude, New York University Law School, Editor of the N.Y.U. Law Review, recipient of the Order of the Coif (1973)
B.A., City College of the City University of New York (1968)